Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crystal

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Chinua Achebe

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

Edward Sapir

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

Charles Frazier

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Dean Koontz

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

Elizabeth Taylor

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Edward Abbey

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Edward Herrmann

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Carl Sandburg

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Beck

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

Allen Tate

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

Alexander MacLaren

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.

Adrian Belew

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Clive James

The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Duane Chapman

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Daniel Yergin

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

David Levithan

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

David Levithan

there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

Alicia Keys

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.

Anthony Burgess

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

Chuck Palahniuk

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Christopher Reeve

In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

It's just devastating. I don't have another word in my vocabulary for it.

Muriel Rukeyser

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

Kiernan Shipka

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

Kim Basinger

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Harold Bloom

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.